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I have a children's wallchart with a variety of weapons and military vehicles. One of the items is 火箭扫雷车. I think I understand the meaning (it's a kind of minesweeper that uses rockets to clear minefields); however, I am stumped on an elegant translation. Also I would like to know if this is a vehicle known to the average Chinese mainlander. It's not a weapon known to most westerners.

I'm not sure if translation questions should be on-topic or not, but I think a literal "Rocket minesweeper" or "missile minsweeper" would be appropriate. Military vehicles don't usually have elegant names.

The rocket system is called Mine-clearning Line Charge(MICLIC or MCLC for short). In the US it is probably named as "M58 MCLC", M58 being the tank. The Wikipedia page also says India has a similar system of which the name is along the line of "MCLC vehicle". Russia has something similar called "Meteorit Mineclearing System".

I would probably call it Rocket Mine-clearing Vehicle, but both Frank and Mr's translations are fine.